The fait accompli policy, the best cover for closing the “elections” chapter Despite the many vicissitudes, it seems to me that the election adventure is gradually coming to an end, thus also extinguishing the echo caused by [text incomplete/garbled]. Not a moment should be lost as regards continuing the various procedures. Thus, without even waiting for the assessments of the OSCE experts, who would present their views on the areas where the elections should be repeated, he himself designated the 17 areas, held the voting, and now it seems that he has definitively closed the elections chapter, despite the criticism received from the State Department regarding this haste of his. But Berisha has called them “good words”; [garbled text] the noise that will come from abroad for a while… PARLIAMENT The new parliament meets more [unclear]

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Despite the many efforts, it seems that the election adventure is gradually coming to an end, thus also extinguishing the echo caused by the diametrically opposed interpretations that characterized this entire month, since May 26. . Despite the many efforts, it seems thus also extinguishing the echo caused by the diametrically opposed interpretations that characterized this entire month, since May 26. Berisha is now showing his weight in his political maneuvering. He has understood that his. But Berisha has understood that “kind for some time, everything will fade with the passage of time. At home, the opposition will not be able to maintain its pace along its line of…

A committee of the United States Senate recently approved substantial financial assistance for the development of certain countries. As announced, a sum of 12.2 billion dollars has been made available. Turkey will be the main beneficiary of such aid, and is not required to meet any prior conditions. Russia and Ukraine will also benefit from this aid, but they must first fulfill certain conditions. The surprise is that the approved fund is no less than 327 million dollars more than Congress had planned and 700 million more than President Clinton’s administration had planned. This aid includes 5.1 billion dollars intended for Israel and Egypt. Eastern Europe will receive 475 million dollars. Bosnia will receive 200 million, while aid for the republics of the former Soviet Union is estimated at 840 million dollars.

“Deputies, do not enter Berisha’s Parliament.” The Socialist Party is seeking the invalidation of its deputies’ mandates in the new legislature, but it is doing so only in the media and not before the competent bodies, such as the Central Electoral Commission. In an interview yesterday on BBC radio, Socialist deputy chairman Namik Dokle said that his party has no deputies in the parliament resulting from the May 26 elections, which, to him, were not elections but “votings.” On that very day, May 26, as Dokle puts it, the Socialist Party, immediately after the official crisis [unclear], withdrew from the elections, pulled out its candidates, and declared that it did not recognize the results of these elections. Under the electoral law, a deputy’s mandate ends before its term for several reasons. In the case of the elected Socialists, who, like the others, have received their mandates in recent days, it is enough for them to refuse to take the oath prescribed by the rules of the People’s Assembly, or, if they do so, to resign. Nevertheless, according to Dokle, there can be no Socialist deputies, since there were no candidates—that is, because they withdrew before voting ended. The categorical words of the SP deputy chairman on London radio, “no Socialist will enter Parliament,” also sound like a call to the five directly elected members and the five elected by proportional representation not to cross the threshold of the Assembly. Dokle’s fear is understandable, since some time ago the President of the Republic, Berisha, himself said that “the elected Socialists told me they would enter the Assembly.” The SP denied this at the time, but the fear remained. One of those who signed is also the so-called “reformer,” deputy chairman Meta. Put forward by the press as responsible for the “loss” of May 26, the SP deputy chairman, the PD’s favorite, does not have solid ground beneath his feet. Just a few days ago, he published an interview in “KJ” entitled “I will not enter Parliament,” as if he had only made up his mind that very day. When the SP deputy chairman is also [text unclear], it will be very difficult for the other elected members to leave their parliamentary seats empty, especially now that the SP seems to be giving in.

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